A wide range of interesting articles that help you make informed decisions and deliver the best projects for your clients authored by our team of NBS subject specialists and construction industry contributors.
Discover how specification can support BREEAM New Construction V7, with practical guidance from NBS and BRE on assessment requirements, evidence and more sustainable project outcomes.
With tightening regulations and growing client demand, the construction industry is under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable progress against carbon reduction targets. For specifiers, that ...
Because of how they are used, kitchens and bathrooms experience more moisture, more contact, and more ongoing maintenance. Standard emulsions are not designed for this level of use. Over time, ...
Few pieces of legislation have reshaped the UK construction industry as significantly as the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). Introduced to improve accountability, traceability and safety standards ...
Background NBS Chorus includes the essential features needed to produce high-quality specifications in the cloud. The Chorus Pro level of subscription includes an enhanced set of features which ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
From the first versions of NBS, connecting specification writers with construction product manufacturers has always been a big part of what we do. In the 1970s, this was purely in the form of a ...
1. What clients need No two clients are the same, and each will have requirements specific to their own business needs. However, there is also much commonality across all projects and all sectors.
1. The importance of specification Many smaller practices work on less complex construction projects. While there is no universal definition of what a ‘small works’ project is, it is generally ...
1. Background The specifiers that use NBS want to create a built environment that is safe and inclusive, and has sustainable outcomes. NBS helps specifiers meet this challenge through delivering ...
Background This article illustrates how a specifier can use NBS Chorus to collaborate with a manufacturer to produce a complex specification.
One of the questions most commonly asked of NBS is what the differences are between structuring specifications by Common Arrangement of Work Sections (CAWS) and Uniclass 2015.
NBS Chorus and customer-led development
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Construction and Technology Arguably the biggest external factor influencing the construction industry is the world’s rising population. A recent World Economic Forum publication on the future of ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...